Our Faculty and Staff Put Our Residents First

 



Meet Our Program Director

Stephanie Sharps, M.D.

 

Stephanie Sharps, M.D.

Program Director

Asha Thomas, M.D.

 

Asha Thomas, M.D.

Associate Program Director

Ravitej Khunkhun, M.D.

 

Ravitej Khunkhun, M.D.

Associate Program Director

Paul Stendahl Dy, MD, MBA

 

Paul Stendahl Dy, MD, MBA

Chief Resident

Sushrutha Sridhar, MD

 

Sushrutha Sridhar, MD

Chief Resident

Jean Sturdivant

 

Jean Sturdivant

Program Administrator

Ikia Means

 

Ikia Means

Program Operations Coordinator

GME Faculty

Allergy and Immunology

David Golden, M.D.

 

David Golden, M.D.

Director, Division of Allergy & Immunology

Johnathan Matz, M.D.

 

Johnathan Matz, M.D.

Staff Physician

Cardiology

Mohammed Abuzhara, M.D.

 

Mohammed Abuzhara, M.D.

Director of Cardiology, LifeBridge Health

Darpan Bansal, M.D.

 

Darpan Bansal, M.D.

Staff Physician

Paul Gurbel, M.D.

 

Paul Gurbel, M.D.

Director of the Center for Thrombosis Research

Sunal Suresh Makadia, M.D.

 

Sunal Suresh Makadia, M.D.

Staff Physician

Distinctions

  • Rated one of the top 50 U.S. hospital heart programs in U.S. News & World Report

Special Programs

  • Cardiac noninvasive laboratory (stress tests, transthoracic and transesophageal echos, holters)

  • Cardiac Diagnostic Center (Cardiac catheterization, electrophysiologic testing, ablation, angioplasty, pacemaker therapy, defibrillator implantation, tilt table testing)

  • Coronary Care Unit

  • Cardiac Progressive Care Floor

  • Open Heart Surgery Center

  • Cardiovascular Research Laboratory

  • Heart Station (electrocardiography)

Research Activities

  • Arrhythmia, sudden death, automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator

  • Transesophageal echocardiography

  • Angioplasty device trials

  • Multicenter drug trial in heart disease prevention

Critical Care

Jaime Simon, D.O.

 

Jaime Simon, D.O.

Department Chair Sinai and Northwest, LifeBridge Health Critical Care

Talha Mehmood, M.D.

 

Talha Mehmood, M.D.

Director of Sinai Medicine ICU

Endocrinology

Asha Thomas, M.D.

 

Asha Thomas, M.D.

Director, Division of Endocrinology; Associate Program Director, Medicine Residency

Henry Fein, M.D.

 

Henry Fein, M.D.

Staff Physician

Esther Krug, M.D.

 

Esther Krug, M.D.

Staff Physician

Artit Silpasuvan, M.D.

 

Artit Silpasuvan, M.D.

Staff Physician

Cristian Vilcu, M.D.

 

Cristian Vilcu, M.D.

Staff Physician

Distinctions

  • Rated one of the top 50 U.S endocrinology programs in U.S. News & World Report (2007)

Special Programs

  • Diabetes Resource Center (ADA Certified)

  • Metabolic bone disease

  • Thyroid nodule clinic

  • Inpatient Diabetic Services

Gastroenterology

John Rabine, M.D.

 

John Rabine, M.D.

Director, Division of Gastroenterology

Sudhir Dutta, M.D.

 

Sudhir Dutta, M.D.

Staff Physician

Rakesh Vinayek, M.D.

 

Rakesh Vinayek, M.D.

Staff Physician

Bedoor Alabbas, M.D.

 

Bedoor Alabbas, M.D.

Staff Physician

Special Programs

  • G.I. Diagnostic Center (endoscopy, G.I. motility studies, ERCP, esophageal pH monitoring), video capsule endoscopy, ultrasonic ERCP (EUS), fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)

Research Activities

  • Role of salivary growth factors in esophageal epithelial integrity

  • Role of vitamin A in esophageal cancer

  • New drug therapy in esophageal cancer

  • Markers of neoplastic transformation in human colonocytes for detection of colon cancer

  • HIV disease and pancreatitis

  • Markers of pancreatic carcinoma

  • Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)

General Medicine

Robert Roby, M.D.

 

Robert Roby, M.D.

Director Ambulatory Medicine

Stephanie Sharps, M.D.

 

Stephanie Sharps, M.D.

Staff Physician, Program Director, Medicine Residency

Arthur Harrow, M.D.

 

Arthur Harrow, M.D

Staff Physician

Jason Javillo, M.D.

 

Jason Javillo, M.D

Staff Physician

Special Programs

  • Ambulatory Care Center

  • Several satellite sites for general internal medicine practice in Greater Baltimore area available for elective rotations

Geriatrics

Myron Miller, M.D.

 

Myron Miller, M.D.

Academic Director, Division of Geriatrics

Hospitalists

Ajay Hooda, M.D.

 

Ajay Hooda, M.D.

Director of Hospitalist Medicine

Ravitej Khunkhun, M.D.

 

Ravitej Khunkhun, M.D.

Associate Program Director, Sinai Hospitalist Group

Nilesh Patel, M.D.

 

Nilesh Patel, M.D.

 

Eniola Adejumo, M.D.

 

Eniola Adejumo, M.D.

 

Joshua Birnbaum, M.D.

 

Joshua Birnbaum, M.D.

 

Barakelle Haile, M.D.

 

Barakelle Haile, M.D.

 

Lekshminarayan Raghavakurup, M.D.

 

Lekshminarayan Raghavakurup, M.D.

 

Kanwal Razzaq, M.D.

 

Kanwal Razzaq, M.D.

 

Special Programs

  • Dedicated inpatient medical consultation service

  • Inpatient teaching hospitalist program

Infectious Disease

Kjell Wiberg, M.D.

 

Kjell Wiberg, M.D.

Division Director

Jeremy Gradon, M.D.

 

Jeremy Gradon, M.D.

Staff Physician

Vishal I Sethi, M.D.

 

Vishal I Sethi, M.D.

Staff Physician

Stephan Hambaz, M.D.

 

Stephan Hambaz, M.D.

Staff Physician

Special Programs

  • Infectious Disease Ambulatory Center

  • Office of Infection Control

  • HIV program

Research Activities

  • HIV sentinel surveillance study (with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

  • New drug therapies for opportunistic infection in AIDS

  • Pathogenesis, complications and treatment regimens of decubitus ulcers

Nephrology

Tedine Ranich, M.D.

 

Tedine Ranich, M.D.

Staff Physician

Eric Brown, M.D.

 

Eric Brown, M.D.

Staff Physician

Leonid Klopouh, M.D.

 

Leonid Klopouh, M.D.

Staff Physician

Dhaval Aghera, M.D.

 

Dhaval Aghera, M.D.

Staff Physician

Special Programs

  • Inpatient Dialysis Unit

  • Outpatient dialysis facilities and offices

  • Consultation services

Pulmonology

Matthew Park, M.D.

 

Matthew Park, M.D.

Staff Physician

Howard Young, M.D.

 

Howard Young, M.D.

 

Special Programs

  • Pulmonary function laboratory

  • Pulmonary Inpatient Unit

  • Sarcoidosis clinic (The Johns Hopkins Hospital)

  • Sleep Disorders Center

  • Twenty-bed medical/surgical ICU

  • Four-bed cardiac ICU

  • State-of-the-art monitoring equipment

Pulmonary Research Activities

  • Immunologic mechanisms in sarcoidosis

Rheumatology

Marisa Mizus, M.D.

 

Marisa Mizus, M.D.

Staff Physician

Medical Oncology

Pallavi Kumar, M.D.

 

Pallavi Kumar, M.D.

Staff Physician

Sonal Paul, M.D.

 

Sonal Paul, M.D.

Staff Physician

Hospice/Palliative Care

Kenneth Miller, M.D.

 

Kenneth Miller, M.D.

Staff Physician

Addiction Medicine

Devang Ghandi, M.D.

 

Devang Ghandi, M.D.

Staff Physician